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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 26.
Published in final edited form as: Occup Environ Med. 2016 May 17;73(10):640–647. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2015-103352

Table 3.

Standardized associations (β, SE) between job demands, job control, and eight different continuous cognitive outcomes.

Job demands (continuous) Job control (continuous)

β (SE) P β (SE) P
Mini-Mental State Exam
 M1: age, gendera 0.037 (0.021) 0.092 0.064 (0.022) 0.004
 M2: M1+education, occupationb 0.001 (0.022) 0.958 0.001 (0.024) 0.965
 M3: M2+social, vascular risksc 0.001 (0.023) 0.677 −0.004 (0.024) 0.854
Trailmaking Test A
 M1: age, gendera 0.019 (0.021) 0.387 0.095 (0.022) <.0001
 M2: M1+education, occupationb −0.007 (0.022) 0.749 0.054 (0.024) 0.021
 M3: M2+social, vascular risksc −0.005 (0.023) 0.817 0.048 (0.024) 0.051
Trailmaking Test B
 M1: age, gendera 0.060 (0.021) 0.005 0.126 (0.022) <.0001
 M2: M1+education, occupationb 0.020 (0.022) 0.356 0.059 (0.024) 0.012
 M3: M2+social, vascular risksc 0.027 (0.022) 0.225 0.055 (0.024) 0.023
FCSRTd-Immediate
 M1: age, gendera 0.026 (0.022) 0.231 0.000 (0.022) 0.984
 M2: M1+education, occupationb 0.010 (0.022) 0.660 −0.032 (0.024) 0.180
 M3: M2+social, vascular risksc 0.008 (0.023) 0.696 −0.042 (0.024) 0.086
FCSRTd-Delayed
 M1: age, gendera 0.038 (0.022) 0.079 0.018 (0.022) 0.428
 M2: M1+education, occupationb 0.024 (0.022) 0.287 −0.010 (0.024) 0.697
 M3: M2+social, vascular risksc 0.027 (0.023) 0.239 −0.015 (0.025) 0.547
Digit Symbol Substitution Test
 M1: age, gendera −0.004 (0.021) 0.852 0.094 (0.022) <.0001
 M2: M1+education, occupationb −0.051 (0.021) 0.016 0.021 (0.023) 0.343
 M3: M2+social, vascular risksc −0.046 (0.022) 0.034 0.02 (0.023) 0.479
Phonemic fluency
 M1: age, gendera 0.025 (0.022) 0.259 0.114 (0.022) <.0001
 M2: M1+education, occupationb −0.011 (0.022) 0.617 0.060 (0.023) 0.011
 M3: M2+social, vascular risksc −0.009 (0.023) 0.676 0.068 (0.024) 0.006
Semantic fluency
 M1: age, gendera 0.016 (0.021) 0.458 0.131 (0.022) <.0001
 M2: M1+education, occupationb −0.025 (0.022) 0.250 0.067 (0.023) 0.004
 M3: M2+social, vascular risksc −0.026 (0.022) 0.247 0.075 (0.022) 0.002
a

Adjusted for age and gender

b

Adjusted for age, gender, educational attainment, and occupational grade at testing

c

Adjusted for age, gender, educational attainment, occupational grade at testing, depressive and anxious symptoms, smoking status, alcohol consumption, BMI, high cholesterol, diabetes, history of myocardial infarction, years since retirement at testing, and marital status

d

Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test

Significant statistical interaction between exposure and participant sex